New UK copyright laws

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New UK copyright laws

1 October 2014, 14:36

Amongst other new laws coming into effect today (like the new car tax rules), new copyright laws means its finally legal to rip your CDs to digital format for your own personal use.

There are also new fair use provisions making it legal to use copyrighted material for parody. On that subject, here's a new cassetteboy video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YBu...vBTSHyfM3F6WLQ
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1 October 2014, 14:40

ha ha ha brilliant video!
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1 October 2014, 14:54

Originally posted by TheCyclingProgrammer View Post

There are also new fair use provisions making it legal to use copyrighted material for parody. On that subject, here's a new cassetteboy video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YBu...vBTSHyfM3F6WLQ
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#4

1 October 2014, 17:02

Top marks. Very nicely put together.

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#5

1 October 2014, 22:08

Brilliant!

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